Diary, Iowa, Illinois, 1934, 1935

Title Variants

Alternative: Travel diary and field notes, Illinois 1935 (II)

Related Titles

Contained In: Bohumil Shimek Papers, 1878-1936
Series: SIA RU007082
Series: Smithsonian Field Book Project : an initiative to improve access to field book content that documents natural history

By

Shimek, Bohumil, 1861-1937

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1934-1935

Notes

The diary documents Bohumil Shimek's work and travel in Iowa, Illinois, August 27, 1934 - November 13, 1935. Pages are numbered. Entries are dated, and describe dated lists of expenses, travel details (locations, modes of travel), weather, descriptions of terrain (layers, colors, composition, measurements), geological sections, destinations and distances, shell fossils found, lists of plants observed, daily work, descriptiond of terrain around streams, cuts in terrain, and bluffs. Notes describe fieldwork in western Missouri and Ozarks in September, 1935. Locations include Lewistown, Waterford, Otter Creek, Havana, Erion, Chandlerville, Green Valley, and Pekin, Illinois.

Subjects

Botany , Chandlerville , Field notes , Geology , Green Valley , Havana , Illinois , Iowa , Lewistown , Missouri , Paleontology , Pekin , United States , Waterford (historical)

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.148897